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Is Ahmadinejad KGB Agent Or Another Fool OR MAD TAAZI (Islamist Fanatic) Leader?

Is there any possibility that Ahmadinejad KGB Agent ? Or is he another TAAZI (Islamist fanatic fool) in the hand of Mullahs?
OR IS HE MAD TAAZI???????

Public Information:

1) Mr. Putin was first person within less than 24 hours to congratulate Ahmadinejad. Why was Putin ( this top KGB officer) so excited?

2) “We seek to strengthen Russia’s role in the world,” Ahmadinejad stressed.

3) "Many of my interrogations were at odd hours, after midnight, during which
Mr. Ahmadinejad advised me that they knew of my handicapped son's name,
address and school," said former US hostage, Col. Dave Roeder (Ret.). "They
had full knowledge of my son's school pick-up and drop-off schedules,
threatening that my wife would receive his small body parts, by mail, if I did
not cooperate," he added. "I was in Tehran, I was there, I saw him
[Ahmadinejad] for months and months, I can tell it was him. No one can tell
me otherwise," said Bill Daugherty, also a former hostage, in Tehran, whose
point was to challenge any skeptics of his and his fellow hostage's accounts
and recognition of Ahmadinejad.

4) When Islamist students suggested to take U.S. Embassy , Ahmadinejad suggested to take Soviet Union Embassy as well, if he was an agent for KGB this was a good way to cover and test Islamist students.

5) Involved in plotting Dr. Bakhtiar assassinations?

6) The Austrian authorities are in possession of detailed and extensive data
and information implicating Mr. Ahmadinejad's personal involvement in the July
12, 1989 assassinations of Mr. Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou -- the Secretary-
General o! f the Iranian Kurdish Democratic Party -- and two of his colleagues
in Vienna, Austria.

7) Ahmadinejad was for nearly two years an intelligence chief for the unit of the revolutionary guard alleged to plot assassinations against Iranians living abroad.

After the 1979 revolution, the twenty-three year old Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
became Ayatollah Khomeini's universities' representative in the Student Office
for Strengthening Unity, which played the command and control center for the
seizure, and subsequent occupation, of the US Embassy for 444 days. Later in
the 1980's he joined the Revolutionary Guards and eventually helped create the infamous Qods Brigade, which is today, still tasked with the super-secret
special terror operations dictated by the clerical leadership.

OR IS HE TAAZI (MAD Islamist Fanatic) ???????

AmirN wrote:

The term Taazi gets uttered by many, including myself. It is unfortunate that many listeners misinterpret what is really meant by this term. They immediately think that it is a term that’s discriminatory and promotes prejudice. They think it is meant to devalue Arabs in general as well as Iranian-Arabs. This is certainly not the case.

Those who love and cherish Iran and our culture have no need to devalue other cultures. Many different cultures exist in our world, and Iranians are quite content to let all the others stand undisturbed. There is no need for us to elevate ourselves by pulling others down. Destroying the culture of others is not the intent of Iranian nationalists.

Some misguided souls even hint that by using such terms, the nationalists are inadvertently working against Iran by not being sensitive to Iran’s religion and ethnic groups. They point out that such an attitude will alienate the minority groups, and specifically the Iranian-Arabic population of Khuzestan. They are quick to demand unity and scream “intolerance.” They need to open their ears, and listen more carefully.

Foremost, the ethnic background and genetic makeup of an individual are unimportant and not at issue here. What’s at issue is one’s allegiance and frame of mind. This was demonstrated by the Iran-Iraq war. Saddam gravely miscalculated the support that his Arabic army would receive from the local Iranian-Arabic population living in Khuzestan. He miscalculated the effect of feeling Iranian to anyone who is a true Iranian. The Iranian-Arabs showed their allegiance and loyalty to Iran. Those who bravely defended Iran’s soil from the invaders with their own lives proved that they were Iranian through and through. They were definitely not Taazis.

Furthermore, Arabs that live in their own countries and mind their own business are not Taazis. The ones who are not waging jihad, or trying to force islam or any other garbage down the throats of their unsuspecting victims are not Taazis.

So then, now that we know who is not a Taazi, the question becomes who is a Taazi? A Taazi is someone who holds the nomadic Bedouin way of life and code of ethics above that of common human decency. A Taazi is someone who is willing to die and kill in the name of Allah. A Taazi is someone who has turned a deaf ear to his own heart and only listens to the call of hate and violence. A Taazi is someone who feels compelled to carry the Bedouin Barbarian Bylaws to ever-expanding spheres of servitude. More than anything else, a Taazi is someone who has discarded his own deep-rooted traditions and culture in place of a God which was the imagination of a pirate. This last person is a traitor-Taazi; the worst kind.

The best examples of traitor-Taazis are the pro-Islamic Republic Taazis. Most claim Iranian heritage and blood. What good is heritage and blood, if they betray that heritage? They claim they are Iranian. However, they are the anti-thesis of Iranians. As I said, one’s genes and ethnic background do not matter.

That’s why calling someone a Taazi is not prejudicial. One is not born a Taazi. One becomes a Taazi by choice. Unfortunately, much brain-washing goes along with that choice. Nonetheless, it is a choice. It is impolite and in poor taste to mock one who is born a certain way. For example, it is very unfair to mock a person’s appearance, low intellect, or ethnicity. However, it is quite fair to mock one who has chosen to be a certain way. One’s religion (or lack thereof), ideology, political conviction, and Taazi-ness are all fair game. Of course, mocking Taazis is what I do best.

Being a Taazi is a frame of mind. Being a Taazi is a reflection of one’s heart. Genetics have nothing to do with it.

Similarly, being an Iranian is a frame of mind. Being an Iranian is a reflection of one’s heart. Genetics have nothing to do with it.

My heart is in Iran, and Iran is in my heart.

What about you?

Ahmadinejad wrote:

A number of weeks ago, Ahmadinejad instructed his cabinet to write a letter to a ninth-century Shia imam, Mahdi. Shiites hold that Mahdi will return at the end of days to establish Islam as a global religion. Currently, they believe he is hiding at the bottom of a well in the Iranian city ofIsfahan.

After signing the letter, Ahmadinejad's cabinet wondered how they might deliver the letter to the imam Mahdi. The president ordered his minister for culture to hand-deliver the letter by dropping it into the well. Once it was delivered, Ahmadinejad announced that Mahdi sanctioned his presidential power.

NEW YORK - A group of former hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran reaffirmed today there was "no doubt" that the lead interrogator during their ordeal was the current president of Iran.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has denied he personally took part in the hostage-taking, addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York today for five minutes, despite a finding by the U.S. Department of State that he was a "terrorist" and was ineligible for a visa..

Before he spoke, the former hostages and their supporters held a vigil in front of the Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran at 3rd avenue and 40th street.

"For twenty-six years, the government of Iran has not been held accountable for their violation of international law," said Kevin Hermening, who at 21 was a freshly-arrived Marine guard at the Embassy and the youngest hostage. "Despite our political differences as individuals, we all agree as a group that it is time to seek remedy. Ahmadinejad and his government need to be treated as a pariah."

Barry Rosen, now a professor at Columbia University, agreed. "We have lived with this for the rest of our lives," he said. "We were treated like animals."

He said the group of former hostages had resolved to talk anew about their ordeal in order to put a human face on victims of torture. "We are talking about the lives of millions of human beings who are living in pain on a daily basis."

Hermening identified Ahmadinejad as the lead interrogator for the military and security personnel at the embassy. "He was not an English speaker, but directed the interrogations. He told [the interpreters] what to ask. He ordered me to open safes," Hermening said.

He said he had spoken to other security officers at the embassy, including Tom Ahern and Colonel Charles Scott, and that all agreed there was "no doubt" the lead interrogator was Ahmadinejad.

Hermening recounted the story of Colonel David Roeder, who has spoken to reporters but was unable to travel to New York. "Colonel Roeder's interrogator was the current president of Iran. He told Rader, 'we know where you live. We know that you have a handicapped child. We know what time he gets picked up for school. We know where. If you don't answer our questions as we like, we are going to chop off his fingers and his toes and send them one by one to your wife in a box.'"

Iranian human rights activist Dr. Manoucher Ganji helped convince Hermening, Scott, and fellow hostage William Daughterty to speak to National Iranian TV (NITV), which broadcasts into Iran from Los Angeles. In separate interviews this summer, each described his encounter with the current Iranian president while being held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

Personally Conducted

Roeder said that out of his 51 interrogations, Ahmadinejad personally had conducted one-third of them.

The former hostages said they had recognized Ahmadinejad even before photographs of the hostage-takers resurfaced in U.S. newspapers last June, at the time of the first-round of the Iranian presidential elections. "We knew the man from the movement of his eyes, his lips. We knew him," Hermening said.

Before the NITV interviews, the U.S. Department of State had not sought out the former hostages, although they knew that Ahmadinejad would be applying to travel to the United States to address the UN General Assembly this week.

"After their statements to an international television audience, the State Department couldn't do anything else but recognize him as a terrorist," Ganji said.

Ganji also presented to reporters the former head of a taxi company in Tehran, who said he was personally assaulted and tortured by Ahmadinejad in 1981.

Joseph Pirayoff's company was based in the Hotel Intercontinental in Tehran and provided long-term rentals to U.S. defense contractors, in addition to taxi services.

During the 1979 revolution, he received a phone call from a U.S. military attaché at the embassy, asking him to secretly transport family members of U.S. diplomats to evacuation flights at the Tehran airport at night.

Nearly two years later, Pirayoff said Ahmadinejad and 25 revolutionary guardsmen stormed his apartment looking for president Abolhassan Banisadr, who was ousted by Ayatollah Khomeini in a coup in June 1981. "I told them I didn't know Banisadr," he said. Ahmadinejad hit him so hard in the face he broke his jaw.

Ganji himself was “on an Iranian government hit list for eighteen years” while organizing opposition to the regime from Paris, he said.

Some of the former hostages were so upset that the State Department had failed to contact them to confirm the reports about Ahmadinejad that they wrote to Congress last week.

In a letter addressed to the chairman and ranking member of the House International Relations Committee, Rosen, Doughterty, Roeder, and Paul Lewis recounted the latest chapter of their saga.

"To our consternation, the administration waited six weeks [after the election of Ahmadinejad] before contacting ajy former hostages and then only to arrange future appointment times for interviews. The State Department began conducting the very first debriefings on Wednesday, 10 August. Then - incredibly - the very next day, with the debriefing process scarcely begun. the government leaked to the media a CIA report that the investigation had already been concluded that our stated concerns were a case of mistaken identity."

Initial media reports with the leaked CIA report appeared on Friday, August 12, just two days after the first debriefings of former hostages were held. The former hostages have worked with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R, Fla), who has introduced legislation that would provide payment to the former hostages and their families.

The new bill, HR 3358, would abrogate the Jan. 19, 1981 Algiers Accords that prohibited U.S. persons from suing the government of Iran. The Algiers accords required the United States to release frozen Iranian government assets in exchange for the hostages, and sheltered the Iranian government from lawsuit.

More than twenty-four years after their release, the ordeal the hostages underwent remains with them.

Barry Rosen still recalls with shame signing a "confession" after his captors threatened to kill him. "I was thinking of my two young children," he recalled.

Kevin Hermening recalls the day his captors threatened to execute him, holding him blindfolded and handcuffed while they shouted execution commands and poked him repeatedly in the back with automatic rifles. "It was the most frightening experience of my life," he said.

“We seek to strengthen Russia’s role in the world,” Ahmadinejad stressed.

Hakimi wrote:

Mr. Putin has all the right to praise the new Iranian President, Ahmadinejad, since in the game of dirty politics, Mr. Putin is winner & Ahmadinejad a loser. There is tremendous imbalance between the two as far as education, background & expertise are concerned.

Mr. Putin is an old wolf who has seen lots of rain, as we say in Persian; where as Mr. Ahmadfinejad is not even a lamb in comparison. It should be remembered that Mr. Putin has a superb well known knowledge and background of being one of the directors of KGB. Ahmadinejad is ill matched meeting a person as such. Let aside discussing complicated global politics!

The present Iranian regime is after one thing only! And that is to get hold of Atomic Bomb whatever the cost. As if that is the only solution to all their inherent problems!

Russians are after gaining foot hold in Iran, which is their long lasting policy, they are also after cheating Iran from the wealth derived from oil in Caspian see.

They have already cut the share of Iran from 50% to 20%. Despite of the fact that Iranian oil experts know the extent of our loss, but they have been forced to keep quiet due to the nuclear deal!

The Iranian authorities think that when the D day comes, the Russians will support & back them either in Security Council or any where else. But that is self serving & wishful thinking, since Russians can never forgo their tremendous trade interest with U.S.A. in favor of Minuscule trade with Iran, nuclear deal not withstanding. I bet, if the Iranian case is referred to the Security Council, the best The Russians & their newly acquired friend, China, will do, is to abstain. Which means no help to the Iranian Regime?

If the bulk of trade between the two countries has increased 40%, as Mr. Putin has said. The question is, to whose benefit? No doubt to the benefit of Russia. One has to ask, what Iran has got to export to Russia which has a capacity of 40% increment. Therefore, it must be the other way round. So, where is our benefit & interest? Indeed that imbalance of trade makes Mr. Putin dance of joy!?

Contrary to the statement of this Apprentice President, it has been proved time & again that powerful strong Russia has always been a constant threat to the integrity of our country, not the other way round.

The new President has to read at least the history of the last 200 years of our country to grasp the harsh reality! This kind of a statement reminds us of the statements of the leaders of the defunct Iron Curtain Countries towards long abolished U.S.S.R.!

But then, what one has to expect from a man who dose not know the history of the country that by hook or crook has become its president?

In the last 27 years the Iranian Nation has been deprived of the learned, responsible, knowledgeable personalities to take the seat of Presidency. Right from the beginning each one was worst than the other. Its culmination is this new one.

God bless the Iranian Nation with the next president, if any?!

H. Hakimi,

Norway

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NEW YORK -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia and Iran have a lot of mutual interests, including in the Caspian Sea region. In his meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday, Putin said, “Russia and Iran have ancient and rather close relations.” He pointed to close cooperation in different fields.

“It’s rather to say last year trade turnover between our countries increased by 43 percent,” the Russian president said.

He noted that Moscow and Tehran “have a lot of regional interests, including in the Caspian Sea region.”

Putin said, “I hope that this positive dynamics will be continued after the election as Iran’s president.”

“Moreover, being Tehran mayor you established very good relations with our major cities – St. Petersburg and Moscow, the capital of Russia,” Putin said, adding that the Iranian president “has positive experience of cooperation with Russia.”

Ahmadinejad said Russia is Iran’s best friend. “Powerful Russia is our best friend. We’re glad that in the recent years you have succeeded in solving many problems in Russia and strengthening your country’s prestige.”

“Powerful Russia is Iran’s best friend and powerful Iran is one of the best friends of Russia,” he added.

“We seek to strengthen Russia’s role in the world,” Ahmadinejad stressed.

He said Iran is ready to develop cooperation with Russia in the future. “Our government is seeking to develop relations with Russia on a long-term basis.” He agreed that Iran and Russia had a lot of close interests, including in the Caspian Sea region.

“I want to thank you for sending a greetings message to me on the election as Iran’s president. It was very friendly and sincere and proved of our deep and multilateral relations,” the Iranian president stressed.

“Our interests at the bilateral level and on the international arena are very close,” Ahmadinejad said. The Iranian president recognised that he had pleasant memories about his visit to Moscow and his meeting with Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov before he was elected president.

There are two views currently circulating about Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The first is that by calling for Israel's liquidation and by defying the international community on the nuclear issue, he is simply reaching out to his anti-American support-base. The second is that he is mad. Let me tell you why I think the second view is correct.

A number of weeks ago, Ahmadinejad instructed his cabinet to write a letter to a ninth-century Shia imam, Mahdi. Shiites hold that Mahdi will return at the end of days to establish Islam as a global religion. Currently, they believe he is hiding at the bottom of a well in the Iranian city ofIsfahan.

After signing the letter, Ahmadinejad's cabinet wondered how they might deliver the letter to the imam Mahdi. The president ordered his minister for culture to hand-deliver the letter by dropping it into the well. Once it was delivered, Ahmadinejad announced that Mahdi sanctioned his presidential power.

So here we have the leader of an oil-rich theocracy with nuclear ambitions sending letters to a 9th-Century imam in a well. Beneath the comedy, however, there is a terrible truth. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad believes that he has been divinely ordained to bring about the final drama in the struggle for the world's soul. And it is that demented belief in his global significance that makes the new president so dangerous.

That danger was in evidence again last Wednesday, when he stated that he had no intention of ceasing to process uranium at the Isfahan nuclear plant. And just so we got the message, he deployed another batch of uranium ore to the installation.

That was followed by the sacking of over half of Iran's international ambassadors, including its envoy to Britain. These reformers are to be replaced by Ahmadinejad's young hardliners.

And in a major act of political manoeuvring that sent shivers down the spines of Iran's democrats, the president appointed a former colleague in the revolutionary guards to the sensitive position of minister for oil. The appointment caused dismay because the new minister has no experience of government and is just as zealous as his president.

So what is to be done? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not simply a threat to Israel and the US. His presidency is an affront to all civilised nations, which is why the time for trying to reason with the man is over. But does that mean military action?

There are plenty who support military intervention in Iran. They include the grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini, the architect of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. Hussein Khomeini believes his grandfather created "the world's worst dictatorship", and that the only way to end it "is to bring in the American 82nd Airborne Division".

The military option must always be on the table when dealing with a rogue state intent on destabilising an entire region. But, at this stage, it would do little to help the Iranian pro-democracy movement. And that is because they know that an armed intervention would galvanise support for Ahmadinejad.

Iran is not like Iraq. The reason Iraqis could not remove Saddam by themselves is because the opposition was either in exile or in mass graves. But in Iran there is a young, sophisticated, pro-democracy movement that has millions of members. Andunlike their ill-fated Iraqi brethren, they have established a strong base throughout the country.

That means that Iran has even greater potential to become a beacon for democracy inside the Middle East than Iraq. So how can we help the Iranian democrats remove their despised regime without playing directly into Ahmadinejad's hands?

First, pressure should be applied at the United Nations for a package of economic sanctions to be imposed. The mullahs dread such a blockade because they know it would alienate the poor and uneducated who are their natural supporters.

And if that package includes sanctions on Iran's massive oil wealth, it could crush their nuclear hopes.

Second, the international community must provide all the technical and logistical assistance that the democrats require to start an uprising. For some years now, everything has been in place inside Iran for such an insurrection. The leaders of the pro-western movement are just waiting for the signal from Washington and London.

Finally, it is imperative that the International Atomic Energy Agency be given full access to Iran's nuclear sites before Israel opts to bomb them. If anything will destroy the hopes of an entire generation of Iranians for freedom, it will be a pre-emptive strike by Israel. And that is because it will give Ahmadinejad the excuse he needs to trigger a war involving the entireMiddle East.

The election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran has brought us to a point of no return in respect of his beautiful country. For 26 years we have watched as the ayatollahs robbed their citizens of basic rights and liberties. But now the children of the revolution have come of age and want to reclaim their nation from madmen.

Backing them in whatever we can, and however they desire, is not only wise politics. It is also a moral obligation.

The term Taazi gets uttered by many, including myself. It is unfortunate that many listeners misinterpret what is really meant by this term. They immediately think that it is a term that’s discriminatory and promotes prejudice. They think it is meant to devalue Arabs in general as well as Iranian-Arabs. This is certainly not the case.

Those who love and cherish Iran and our culture have no need to devalue other cultures. Many different cultures exist in our world, and Iranians are quite content to let all the others stand undisturbed. There is no need for us to elevate ourselves by pulling others down. Destroying the culture of others is not the intent of Iranian nationalists.

Some misguided souls even hint that by using such terms, the nationalists are inadvertently working against Iran by not being sensitive to Iran’s religion and ethnic groups. They point out that such an attitude will alienate the minority groups, and specifically the Iranian-Arabic population of Khuzestan. They are quick to demand unity and scream “intolerance.” They need to open their ears, and listen more carefully.

Foremost, the ethnic background and genetic makeup of an individual are unimportant and not at issue here. What’s at issue is one’s allegiance and frame of mind. This was demonstrated by the Iran-Iraq war. Saddam gravely miscalculated the support that his Arabic army would receive from the local Iranian-Arabic population living in Khuzestan. He miscalculated the effect of feeling Iranian to anyone who is a true Iranian. The Iranian-Arabs showed their allegiance and loyalty to Iran. Those who bravely defended Iran’s soil from the invaders with their own lives proved that they were Iranian through and through. They were definitely not Taazis.

Furthermore, Arabs that live in their own countries and mind their own business are not Taazis. The ones who are not waging jihad, or trying to force islam or any other garbage down the throats of their unsuspecting victims are not Taazis.

So then, now that we know who is not a Taazi, the question becomes who is a Taazi? A Taazi is someone who holds the nomadic Bedouin way of life and code of ethics above that of common human decency. A Taazi is someone who is willing to die and kill in the name of Allah. A Taazi is someone who has turned a deaf ear to his own heart and only listens to the call of hate and violence. A Taazi is someone who feels compelled to carry the Bedouin Barbarian Bylaws to ever-expanding spheres of servitude. More than anything else, a Taazi is someone who has discarded his own deep-rooted traditions and culture in place of a God which was the imagination of a pirate. This last person is a traitor-Taazi; the worst kind.

The best examples of traitor-Taazis are the pro-Islamic Republic Taazis. Most claim Iranian heritage and blood. What good is heritage and blood, if they betray that heritage? They claim they are Iranian. However, they are the anti-thesis of Iranians. As I said, one’s genes and ethnic background do not matter.

That’s why calling someone a Taazi is not prejudicial. One is not born a Taazi. One becomes a Taazi by choice. Unfortunately, much brain-washing goes along with that choice. Nonetheless, it is a choice. It is impolite and in poor taste to mock one who is born a certain way. For example, it is very unfair to mock a person’s appearance, low intellect, or ethnicity. However, it is quite fair to mock one who has chosen to be a certain way. One’s religion (or lack thereof), ideology, political conviction, and Taazi-ness are all fair game. Of course, mocking Taazis is what I do best.

Being a Taazi is a frame of mind. Being a Taazi is a reflection of one’s heart. Genetics have nothing to do with it.

Similarly, being an Iranian is a frame of mind. Being an Iranian is a reflection of one’s heart. Genetics have nothing to do with it.

MOSCOW - A top Kremlin diplomat warned against threatening Iran with sanctions or the use of force, saying that would only aggravate the international standoff over Tehran's suspect nuclear program, Russian media reports said Saturday.

Rather than getting Iran to stop uranium enrichment, a tougher stance could result in Tehran's total refusal to cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, said Oleg Ozerov, deputy director of the Foreign Ministry's Middle East and North Africa Department, according to ITAR-Tass.

"We firmly stand today for resolving the problems in and around Tehran diplomatically rather than militarily. Increasing international pressure on Iran has no prospects," Ozerov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency

In long run Russian support for Taazi will be very expensive for them.

In long run Russian support for Taazi will be very expensive for them.

Tend to agree with this, as the Iranian people will no doubt remember who stood beside them in their search for freedom, and who held them back.

As for the word "Taazi" is this an abreviation for "Theocraticly Asinine Animals Zapped by Insanity" ????

(chuckle)......

Recently I asked the question whether the 12th Imman cult could be even considered "Islamic" in a post, and whether a new term was called for to better accurately define something so warped from majority Muslim belief with a totally different source of inspiration (the hidden Imman) other than Mohammed.
Compared it to Jim Jones and his Koolaid cult as not example of Cristianity....

A terrorist is defined by his actions, as is a freedom fighter. What seperates them by definition is the methods employed and the target of choice.

AmirN has defined his target of choice, and the weapon of choice he has used is a sniper rifle, in seeking proper definition.

Crawling around in the minds of madmen is not pleasant, but someone has to do it, and deliver their findings to the sane.

So then, the success of the opposition may very well depend on the convincing of "average Ali" in Iran to declare the leaders of the regime "apostates" in his own mind, and declare jihad.....

In fact what comes around goes around...Karma...and especially instant karma is a real trainwreck I forsee in the regime's imminent future.

...a tougher stance could result in Tehran's total refusal to cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, said Oleg Ozerov.

Nappy-time's over Oleg!....smell the coffee!....Your bad dream is indeed reality without anyone lifting a finger......Just do your job, report the facts....when it comes down to the legal efforts of the family of nations....it's not really about the issues...but about who's sane, and who's insane.

Oh, are you afraid of losing your job? That the friendly people who finance the bombing of innocents, "don't give a damn" what the international family of nations does in response to the threat of nuclear terrorism, in response to those who promote armageddon in the mideast; who might just get their furr ruffled if folks get it in mind to stop their agenda..(in your opinion)....that you'd not have a paycheck as a result because the IAEA got it's ass kicked out of Iran?

Son, let me clue you in to something.....the IRI and its pissed off preachers would just as soon hold you hostage at gunpoint the next time the IAEA goes in to inspect....as look at you....let alone open any doors.
(as some officials of the regime have suggested publicly)

Note To All Activistchat Members:

Please pass my sentiments on to this idiot with my best regards...Ba Sepaas in advance....

Israel's prime minister designate, Ehud Olmert, yesterday denounced the president of Iran as a “psychopath” and likened him to Adolf Hitler, in a growing confrontation over the Iranian nuclear programme.

The attack on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map”, came as it emerged that the head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, secretly discussed the nuclear programme with officials in Washington last week.

Meir Dagan, the Mossad chief, is believed to have passed on the latest Israeli intelligence on covert Iranian plans for enriching uranium, with a warning that Tehran may be nearer to acquiring nuclear weapons than widely believed.

The Israeli leader’s comments, his most forceful condemnation of Ahmadinejad, came in an interview with the German newspaper Bild.

“Ahmadinejad speaks today like Hitler before taking power,” Olmert said of the president, who has questioned the Holocaust and suggested the Jewish state be moved to Europe or North America. “So you see, we are dealing with a psychopath of the worst kind — with an anti-semite. God forbid that this man ever gets his hands on nuclear weapons, to carry out his threats.”

The strength of Olmert’s denunciation reflected mounting concern not only about Iran’s nuclear projects, but also about the international community’s perceived failure to respond decisively to what many Israelis see as a threat that will ultimately have to be eliminated by force.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) admitted on Friday that it was alarmed by “gaps” in its knowledge about Iran’s centrifuge programme and the role of the Iranian military in undeclared nuclear work. An Israeli source said Mossad had evidence of hidden uranium enrichment sites in Iran “which can short-cut their timetable in the race for their first bomb”.

Dagan, a stocky former commando who was injured in the 1967 six-day war, was sent to Washington by Olmert, the victor of last month’s Israeli elections, to prepare the way for his own visit to the White House on May 23. The Mossad boss is thought to have held meetings with counterparts at the CIA, the Pentagon and national security council. “Dagan is not given to small talk and niceties,” said an Israeli intelligence source, who believes he told the Americans: “This is what we know and this is what we’ll do if you continue to do nothing.”

Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, vowed last week that Iran’s nuclear programme would go underground if attacked. But many intelligence experts believe it is already operating a parallel uranium enrichment programme concealed from IAEA inspections.

“When I read the recent (intelligence) reports regarding Iran, I saw a monster in the making,” said Dr Yuval Steinitz, chairman of the Israeli parliament’s foreign and defence committee, who oversees Mossad’s activities in Iran.

Steinitz fears the Islamic republic might be only a year away from developing a bomb, although the Iranians claim to be pursuing a peaceful nuclear energy programme. “There is only one option that is worse than military action against Iran and that is to sit and do nothing,” Steinitz said.

Although the Israelis would like the Americans to take military action against Iran, should it become necessary, President George W Bush is in no rush to order airstrikes. After the IAEA released its report last week, Bush said “diplomatic options are just beginning” and promised to work with allies to achieve a “peaceful solution”.

Britain, France, Germany and America hope to pass a resolution at the United Nations security council this week mandating Iran to suspend its work on uranium enrichment. If Iran refuses to back down, the security council could impose targeted sanctions.

Ahmadinejad boasted last week that he did not “give a damn” about UN resolutions.

If America does not get its way at the security council, it intends to raise the possibility of isolating Iran economically at the July G8 summit in St Petersburg.

A senior Israeli source said in Washington last week that Israel could not allow Iran to spin out negotiations indefinitely. “If we do not see any progress on the political or economic track that convinces the Iranians to back down, one of the parties will use the military option,” he said.

WASHINGTON — When Iran's president addresses the U.N. General Assembly later this month, he will not be treated to a one-on-one debate with President Bush, as he has requested, but will be met by a crowd of thousands of protesters at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza. The hastily arranged protests are part of a growing opposition to President Ahmadinejad's visit to America.

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is organizing a rally outside the United Nations to protest Mr. Ahmadinejad's presence on American soil and show solidarity with Israel and the war on terrorism. The organization's executive vice chairman, Malcolm Hoenlein said, "We'll be ready for him," when asked for a reaction to reports from Tehran yesterday that the Iranian president has announced his intention to address the U.N. General Assembly.

"I hope the government will restrict his movements and make sure to take his fingerprints," Mr. Hoenlein said. "We hope the United Nations and many other leaders might reconsider being in the room when he speaks."

The Iranian leader's visit presents a new challenge to the United Nations and its long-standing policy of recognizing the sovereign equality of world leaders. In the past year, Mr. Ahmadinejad has called for the destruction of a U.N. member state and expressed anti-Semitic views and doubts about the Holocaust. He also praised the terror militia his regime helped create in the 1980s in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah, after it abducted two Israel soldiers and killed eight more on July 12, sparking Israel's latest war with Lebanon.

In his address to the U.N. General Assembly last year, Mr. Ahmadinejad asserted his country's right to nuclear power. Despite agreements Iran signed promising not to enrich uranium, it formally broke the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty in February.

Yesterday, Iran's official news agencies quoted a press release from Mr. Ahmadinejad's office saying he would like to challenge Mr. Bush to a debate at the U.N. General Assembly on September 19. The White House press secretary, Tony Snow, dismissed the idea out of hand yesterday, and the State Department hinted strongly that it had little option but to allow the Iranian president to visit the United Nations in New York, as it is required to do under the diplomatic agreement America signed as host of the world body's headquarters.

"When he says he wants to come to the General Assembly, I have no reason to doubt that he wants to come to the General Assembly and address it," a State Department spokesman, Sean McCormack, said. "Iran is a member state of the United Nations, and there are certain obligations as the host country that we have with respect to the United Nations and visitors to the General Assembly and to the United Nations."

Mr. McCormack also said that if Mr. Ahmadinejad receives a visa, the State Department will provide diplomatic security, just as it is for a former Iranian president, Mohammed Khatemi.

Last week, the State Department approved a visa for Mr. Khatemi to tour America in what many members of Iran's secular and liberal opposition consider a propaganda tour and a betrayal of Mr. Bush's promises to stand in solidarity with the Iranian people.

Mr. Khatemi addressed a packed house at the National Cathedral in Washington yesterday but was also met by protests from Iranian dissidents, some of whom suffered torture and detention during his eight-year tenure.

One such dissident, Amir Abbas Fakhravar, told The New York Sun: "I don't feel betrayed, but he should not be allowed to come to America. This visit, however, emphasized America's freedom. His visit has also had the effect of drawing the whole Iranian opposition closer together."

Indeed, at an event at the National Press Club yesterday, a son of the late shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, stood alongside eight Iranian dissidents affiliated with opposition movements that are not associated with the old monarchists. When one monarchist in the audience asked Mr. Pahlavi to assert himself as "the leader of the opposition," he responded that he sees his role only as pushing for free elections and the rule of law.

At the press club, Senator Brownback, a Republican of Kansas who for the past five years has pressed for more direct American support for Iran's liberal opposition, said he will introduce new legislation to create a human rights envoy for Iran. The bill also will seek to expedite the visa process for professors who have recently been purged from Iranian universities for promoting secular, liberal ideas.

Mr. Brownback was joined at the event yesterday by Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat of California, who described the Bush administration's Iran policy as one of "bow and surrender."

Homa Arjomand, Coordinator of the International Campaign Against Sharia Court in Canada is calling a press conference where she and other Iranian activists will demand the arrest of President Ahmadinejad for crimes against humanity.

"We declare that President Ahmadinejad has violated Articles 9, 10, 11 and 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.", said Homa Arjomand. "We therefore call on the United Nations to arrest President Ahmadinejad for violating human rights in Iran ".

The protestors claim President Ahmadinejad is responsible for the assassinations and executions of tens of Iranian activists both in Iran and abroad.

"It is a disgrace to the United Nations to permit this man, with his record on human rights, the privilege to speak at this assembly, especially when he has taken the same rights from people in Iran and in tens of cases he has also taken their lives", added Homa Arjomand.

Iranian refugees and exiles living in Canada will gather at Queen's Park in Toronto to demand that Canada extradite President Ahmadinejad and to have him stand trial in Canada for the death of Canadian photographer, Zahara Kazemi.

Friends and family of the following activists who have been killed by Iranian authorities in the past three months will speak at Queen's Park:

· Hojat Zamani
· Akbar Mohhammadi
· Valiollah Fayz-Mahdavi

Location: Queen's Park, Toronto

Date: Monday, September 18, 2006, 2:00 pm

An open microphone will also be available for other Iranians attending the protest. They will be able to tell their personal stories and to expose the crimes and human rights abuses of this Iranian regime and the leading terrorist – President Ahmadinejad.

Hundreds of activists from Canada will join several thousands Iranians protesting at the United Nations to demand the arrest of President Ahmadinejad

After the press conference on Monday, Homa and several hundreds of Canadians will travel to New York City to protest at the United Nation where they will demand the arrest of the Iranian President Ahmadinejad.

Location: In front of the United Nations
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2006, 10:00 AM

"We have three buses going to New York , as well many cars and minivans, said Homa, "please contact us if you want to join the protest of this terrorist from Iran ".

About the Campaign

Homa Arjomand is the Coordinator of the International Campaign Against Sharia Court in Canada . She started her campaign in Toronto in October 2003 with a handful of supporters, and today it has grown to a coalition of 87 organizations from 14 countries with over a thousand activists. In February 2006, the Ontario Government passed legislation which ended the use of religious laws for family arbitration. Since then, the Campaign has focused its efforts on stopping political Islam globally. Homa is now Coordinator of a campaign called “No to political Islam” and was a human rights activist in Iran until she was forced to flee in 1989.

WASHINGTON -- Jewish leaders in New York are spurning a request from the Council on Foreign Relations to meet with the president of Iran when he arrives for the U.N. General Assembly. The vice president for communications at the Council on Foreign Relations, Lisa Shields, confirmed yesterday that President Ahmadinejad has been invited to address members of the council.

"Our invitation to Ahmadinejad is no different than our invitation to other heads of states during the General Assembly," she said. "We have had an invitation out over the years to the Iranians as they come to the United Nations. This year they accepted."

Ms. Shields said the council has hosted other contentious foreign leaders, including Fidel Castro of Cuba, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

"It is the mission of the Council on Foreign Relations to create a direct dialogue with world leaders and others," she added. "It is never an endorsement of their positions or policies. The council holds no institutional position. In fact, a direct dialogue creates an opportunity for members of the council to air their views in an unfiltered way."

Senator Santorum, a Republican of Pennsylvania, said Mr. Ahmadinejad "shouldn't be allowed to go anywhere but the United Nations and a hotel if necessary."

"I think this is outrageous," the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Malcolm Hoenlein, said. "Ahmadinejad has proven that dialogue serves no useful purpose except to give him legitimacy and recognition. How can you have a dialogue with someone who says he is guided by the hidden imam who died in the ninth century?"

Mr. Hoenlein added that he declined the council's invitation. His organization is organizing a protest against Mr. Ahmadinejad.

The national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, said that initially the Iranian president was invited to a dinner at the council.

"This was over the top," Mr. Foxman, who also declined the council's invitation to meet with Mr. Ahmadinejad, said. "It's one thing to invite him to hear his views. But it's something else to break bread with him."

Mr. Foxman added, "He has a right to address the United Nations. Anything beyond that is a courtesy he has not earned. For someone who publicly and continuously denies the Holocaust, and for someone who continuously threatens to wipe off the face of the map Israel, a member of the United Nations, is certainly not one with whom decent people should dialogue."

The Iranian leader said last month that he was backing the U.N.-brokered cease-fire between Israel and the Iranian-funded Hezbollah until the Jewish state could be destroyed. Beyond his hostility to Jews and Israel, Mr. Ahmadinejad has overseen a purge of Iran's universities.

A group of former American hostages seized by the revolutionary regime in 1979 has said Mr. Ahmadinejad was one of their interrogators. An Austrian legislator and Kurdish leaders have said the president played an organizing role in the 1989 murder of the Kurdish leader Abdolrahman Ghasemloo in Vienna, Austria.

The sister of Akbar Mohammadi, a political prisoner who died in Evin prison this summer after allegedly being poisoned, said she does not understand why the council invited Mr. Ahmadinejad.

"He is a terrorist," Nasrin Mohammadi said. "When Akbar was alive outside the jail, he told me he loved the American people and the American government. My people love American people. This is an insult to Iranians. We have to hope the American people support the real Iranian people."

Among the Jewish leaders declining the council's invitation are three former chairmen of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations: Mortimer Zuckerman, proprietor of the New York Daily News; Ronald Lauder, who head the Jewish National Fund; and Kenneth Bialkin, who is chairman of the America-Israel Friendship League, as well as Roger Hertog, a trustee of the Shalem Center in Israel.

TORONTO (CP) - The United Nations should arrest the president of Iran and extradite him to Canada to stand trial for the murder of Montreal-based photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, activists bound for a rally in New York said Monday.

Iranian expatriate Homa Arjomand, during a rally outside Ontario's legislature, called President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's scheduled attendance this week at the UN General Assembly in New York an affront to human rights.

"Zahra Kazemi... was arrested, she was murdered, she was tortured," said Arjomand, who anticipates 5,000 Iranian activists will descend on the UN on Tuesday.

"We demand that Ahmadinejad be arrested by the United Nations and given to the Canadian government to... put him on trial."

Kazemi was accused of spying after taking photos of the infamous Evin prison outside of Tehran in 2003. The Iranian-born photojournalist died in custody from head injuries she sustained while being interrogated.

Although Ahmadinejad was not president at the time, Arjomand alleges he was the leader of the Islamic state's execution squads.

Canada's repeated calls for justice in the case have largely been ignored.

"The Canadian government is responsible for doing something serious regarding this," said Arjomand, who last year launched an international appeal to prevent Sharia courts in Ontario.

Ahmadinejad's visit to New York comes amid tensions between Iran and the West, particularly the United States, regarding the country's nuclear program.

Although French President Jacques Chirac proposed a compromise Monday to kickstart talks between Iran and the international community on the issue, he refused to meet personally with Ahmadinejad.

Chirac said "deplores" the anti-Israeli remarks of the Iranian leader - Ahmadinejad has said Israel should be "wiped off the map."

On Monday, three buses departed Toronto carrying some 300 Iranian activists bound for New York, where Arjomand says they'll meet with thousands more from across North America who will protest his visit.

The rally at Ontario's legislature to mark their departure heard from a dozen Iranian activists, many of whom shared gruesome stories of torture in Iran's prisons.

Furugh Argavan, 48, told the rally she spent six months confined in a small box, where she sat cross-legged and blindfolded for 18 hours a day in what she called "doomsday torture."

The former teacher, who changed her last name over fears her activism could spark reprisal against her parents still in Iran, said many victims of such torture have since attempted suicide.

Argavan joined the chorus of voices in calling the current Iranian administration a "regime of blood and torture."

Many who spoke held grisly photos of bodies hanging by the neck from cranes.

Samich Askari pleaded for the life of a 23-year-old woman facing execution at Evin prison for the murder of her mother-in law - an act Askari said was committed in self-defence.

Homa Arjomand, Coordinator of the International Campaign Against Sharia Court in Canada is calling a press conference where she and other Iranian activists will demand the arrest of President Ahmadinejad for crimes against humanity.

"We declare that President Ahmadinejad has violated Articles 9, 10, 11 and 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.", said Homa Arjomand. "We therefore call on the United Nations to arrest President Ahmadinejad for violating human rights in Iran ".

The protestors claim President Ahmadinejad is responsible for the assassinations and executions of tens of Iranian activists both in Iran and abroad.

"It is a disgrace to the United Nations to permit this man, with his record on human rights, the privilege to speak at this assembly, especially when he has taken the same rights from people in Iran and in tens of cases he has also taken their lives", added Homa Arjomand.

Iranian refugees and exiles living in Canada will gather at Queen's Park in Toronto to demand that Canada extradite President Ahmadinejad and to have him stand trial in Canada for the death of Canadian photographer, Zahara Kazemi.

Friends and family of the following activists who have been killed by Iranian authorities in the past three months will speak at Queen's Park:

· Hojat Zamani
· Akbar Mohhammadi
· Valiollah Fayz-Mahdavi

Location: Queen's Park, Toronto

Date: Monday, September 18, 2006, 2:00 pm

An open microphone will also be available for other Iranians attending the protest. They will be able to tell their personal stories and to expose the crimes and human rights abuses of this Iranian regime and the leading terrorist – President Ahmadinejad.

Hundreds of activists from Canada will join several thousands Iranians protesting at the United Nations to demand the arrest of President Ahmadinejad

After the press conference on Monday, Homa and several hundreds of Canadians will travel to New York City to protest at the United Nation where they will demand the arrest of the Iranian President Ahmadinejad.

Location: In front of the United Nations
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2006, 10:00 AM

"We have three buses going to New York , as well many cars and minivans, said Homa, "please contact us if you want to join the protest of this terrorist from Iran ".

About the Campaign

Homa Arjomand is the Coordinator of the International Campaign Against Sharia Court in Canada . She started her campaign in Toronto in October 2003 with a handful of supporters, and today it has grown to a coalition of 87 organizations from 14 countries with over a thousand activists. In February 2006, the Ontario Government passed legislation which ended the use of religious laws for family arbitration. Since then, the Campaign has focused its efforts on stopping political Islam globally. Homa is now Coordinator of a campaign called “No to political Islam” and was a human rights activist in Iran until she was forced to flee in 1989.

Nobel Prize laureate joins group of Israeli legal scholars, public figures calling for Iran’s removal from int’l body; ‘it is hard to believe that when Ahmadinejad is denying the Holocaust the enlightened world is planning to host him at General Assembly,’ group says; former ambassador to US Rosenne: Nobody will be able to claim that we did not know and therefore did not react

Dan Bentsur Published: 09.12.06, 19:05

With the opening of the UN General Assembly on September 12, 2006, Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel has joined a call by Israeli legal scholars and public personalities who are calling for the expulsion of Iran from the UN due to the statements of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other members of the Iranian national security establishment.

The group said in a statement that it was established at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs “in order to warn of the violations by the Iranian president of the 1949 Convention to prevent and punish the crime of genocide and to propose the initiation of legal proceedings against Ahmadinejad within the UN framework.”
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Members of the group include Dr. Meir Rosenne, former legal advisor to the Foreign Ministery and Ambassador of Israel to the US and France; Dr. Dore Gold, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN and today President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; lawyer Irit Kahan, former director of the International Affairs Department at the State Attorney’s Office; Eytan Bentsur, former director-general of the Foreign Ministry; attorney Justus Reid Weiner, former director of the American Law and External Relations Department of the Justice Ministry, and MK Danny Naveh.

“The Jerusalem Center’s legal group has determined that the Iranian president is in violation of the 1949 Genocide Convention, which outlaws incitement to genocide,” Dori Gold said.

'Mandatory moral obligation'

Eytan Bentsur added: It is inexplicable and inexcusable that the international community is not reacting vehemently to Ahmadinejad’s Nazi-style utterances. If there is no international uproar, he will be led to believe that he can get away with murder.”

Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz and Professor Irwin Cotler, a member of the Canadian Parliament and former justice minister of Canada, have also joined the group’s call as of late.

"It’s quite incredible that 70 years after World War Two the president of a member country of the UN is stating load and clear that his intention is to wipe the Jewish State off the map and to realize the indifference of civilized countries when such a threat is uttered against the Jewish people," Meir Rosenne said.

“Nobody will be able to claim that we did not know and therefore did not react.”

'A real threat to humanity'

The group said it believes that Ahmadinejad’s statements constitute “direct public incitement to commit genocide and participation in genocide” and that “the Iranian threat is not a potential or theoretical one. On the basis of international legal standards, the president of Iran has violated the explicit prohibition in the Charter on the prevention and punishment of crimes of genocide. This violation is punishable by the UN, its main bodies and judicial organs the international, regional and municipal jurisdictions.

“The request to expel Iran from the family of nations is not only legitimate, but is the mandatory moral obligation of all those who see themselves obligated to the peace of mankind. Iran today endangers the peace of the entire world. It is necessary to do everything to prevent the president of Iran from fulfilling his plans, which pose a real threat to humanity," the statement said.

“It is hard to believe that at a time when the president of Iran is making statements denying the Holocaust and does not hide his intention to erase Israel from the map, the enlightened world is planning to host Ahmadinejad at the opening of the General Assembly instead of evicting his country from the UN altogether."
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Israeli forum set to demand International Court of Justice in The Hague launch legal proceedings against Iranian president for conspiring to commit crimes against humanity, genocide
Ronen Bergman

A group of Israeli diplomats plans to turn to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague and demand that it launch legal proceedings against Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for conspiring to commit crimes against humanity.

Following the scathing remarks made by Ahmadinejad in the past few months against Israel's right to exist and his Holocaust denial, while the Iranians are exerting increasing efforts to obtain nuclear weapons, Israeli diplomats decided to form a group aimed at looking into the possibility of launching a legal procedure.

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On Sunday, the group members announced that a legal examination of the issue, in which international legal experts took part, ended with the conclusion that the Iranian president could be sued. The legal file against Ahmadinejad is almost ready for submission.

Among the forum members are former Israeli Ambassador to the United States and France Dr. Meir Rosen, former Foreign Ministry Director-General Eytan Bentsur, and former Minister Dan Naveh. The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), headed by former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Dore Gold, is providing the forum with logistic assistance in preparing the lawsuit.

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

was accepted by the UN General Assembly on December 1948, as the international community's response to the revelations on the Holocaust. The forum's document quotes a speech by Ahmadinejad from October 28, 2005, in which he called to "wipe Israel off the map."

In an interview to the al-Alam Iranian television network during the Islamic Convention in Saudi Arabia, Ahmadinejad declared that Israel's existence was "the main obstacle faced by the Islamic nation." Recently, in April 2006, the Iranian president defined Israel as "a rotten and dried-up tree which will be destroyed by one storm."

'Direct and public incitement to commit genocide'

The Convention on genocide defined genocide as acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. The acts for which countries can be punished as part of the Convention include physical genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, as well as a "direct and public incitement to commit genocide."

Rosen and Gold write in their document that "Ahmadinejad's remarks constitute without a doubt a 'direct and public incitement' to commit genocide. The Iranian regime supports terror organizations, such as the Islamic Jihad, which continuously carries out murderous terror attacks against innocent Israeli citizens. However, the gravity of Ahmadinejad's remarks is particularly outstanding in light of Iran's attempts to develop mass destruction weapons."

The document also stated that "the State of Israel must act against Iran through clause 9 of the Convention. According to this clause, disagreements between states that signed the Convention regarding its implementation must be solved by turning to the International Court of Justice in The Hague."

Both Israel and Iran signed and approved the discussed treaty in the 1950's.

At this stage, the forum is formulating the last wordings of the petition to the ICJ, while continuing to collect evidence, most of it from the media. The forum plans to take additional steps against Ahmadinejad in other European countries with legislation against Holocaust denial.

Jewish and Iranian-American groups plan a rally outside the United Nations tomorrow to call for the ouster of Iran's hard-line president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"Our purpose is to send the message, in the presence of all the leaders of the world, that [Ahmadinejad's] goal is to destroy Israel and to threaten America, and that Iran is the leading sponsor of global terror," said Malcolm Hoenlein, vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

Among the participants will be the families of the two Israeli soldiers who were abducted in July by Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.

A group of Iranian-Americans, meanwhile, are also planning to gather at noon at Dag Hammarskjold UN Plaza alongside the larger protest.

"This is a unique moment for people of all faiths to have their voices heard," Hoenlein said.

The American-Iranian group, the Committee to Stop Iran's Nuclear Weapons, charged in a statement by spokesman Navid Amiri that Ahmadinejad will use his UN speech tomorrow "to articulate the radical and hatemongering views of Iran's tyrannical regime."